The "21" Club Twin Deck of Playing Cards w/ Box Oliver Messel

The "21" Club Twin Deck of Playing Cards w/ Box Oliver Messel4 1 2" x 5 3 4" x 1 1 2"D VG The 21 Club, often simply 21, was a traditional American cuisine restaurant and former prohibition era speakeasy, located at 21 West 52nd Street in New York City. Prior to its closure in 2020, the club had been active for 90 years, and it had hosted almost every US president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It had a hidden wine cellar where it stored the collections of celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren.

Ex-Libris Andy Warhol

Lanvin Perfumes

5 1/2" x 4 1/2"

A Selection Of Painting Of Fruits By William Hooker (1779-1832)

With 380 illustrations

These he kept from July 1942 until four months before his death in 1948

yet was never too refined to shoot dice on hotel room floors

--Harry Lehr

is widely credited

His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York

He based his book in Japan after a stay in 1959 as part of a trip around the world that he published as Thrilling Cities

including fitting it with an oval leather bar the length of Nelson's Column